The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine was named eight winners of its 2025 Visual Arts Reporter Award. The Rabkin Award comes with an unlimited $50,000 wallet, as well as creative and knowledge recognition for each writer’s respective contributions.
This year’s grant winner is Tempestt Hazel, co-founder of Chicago Festival, 60 inches from the center. Jessica Lynne, Associate Editor Mother;Nicole Martinez, critic and deputy director of the artist’s residence program Fountahead Arts; Brandy McDonnell, featured Oklahoma;Cherokee Nation America Meredith, author and publishing editor The First American Art Magazine;Eva Recinos, an independent arts and culture journalist; Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation), writer, essayist and curator; and Jortham Jortham New York Times Magazine.
The annual award was launched by the Rabkin Foundation in 2017 and is one of the largest grants in the class of Visual Arts journalists.
Additionally, in the following year, the Foundation commissioned the portraits of photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki in the space they wrote for the winners. A accompanying project titled Rabkin
The interview also included discussions between work and ideas between Mary Louise Schumacher, executive director of the Rabkin Foundation, and the writer. The interview is scheduled to be released on September 10 in Alternative, and the podcast platform and its website begins on September 10.
“I’ve always been an art writer,” with Kimberly New York Times Magazine Job said in a statement. “It took some elbow grease to get where I worked hard to see this, and also let me show that…I know I need to create opportunities for myself.”
Grant recipients are selected by a jury panel, which includes New Yorkerpublisher of “Stay True: Ameoir” and Zine, author of the book “2023 Pulitzer Prize” Pause in time; author, editor and author Joanne McNeil (2023); executive director of the novels The Wrong Way (2023) and Lurking: How One Becomes a User (2020); Jessica Bell Brown, executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Commonwealth University of Virginia.
